I put together the advice I got from Ben and Patrick this week, made some tweaks and am now ready to submit my entry for the Penguin Random House Design Award:
Patrick suggested I tweak some of the type on the back cover so that it looks a little neater and presentable. I feel like the difference it has made is insane:
Anyway, I've been pouring over this brief for weeks now since I really am in it to win it - if I could keep on making book covers for the rest of my life I would be incredibly satisfied with my practice. I think that I've approached this brief in a much more intelligent way than I did last year and from the start to end my eye for direction has improved through the rigorous distillation of the image into simpler and simpler forms - looking back at my initial idea I see the flaws with its overbearing design more and more. Watching Chip Kidd's TED talk was definitely a massive inspiration to reaching my final solution.
With this new knowledge, I imagine that, with a simplified design, screen printing a book cover could still potentially be a really interesting and viable solution to finishing one. Maybe in the future.
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